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[blackwitch]

Player Information

Name: Jelle
Personal Journal: devilism
Age: 20
Contact Info: aim: Lunixhime, email: queeningsquare[at]gmail[dot]com, plurk: queeningsquare
Other Characters Played: Leon Kuwata, Urotsuki

Character Information

Character Name: Eva-Beatrice
Character Series: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Character Age: Her apparent age is middle school age, about fourteen or so at the most. Her actual age is older than that though, she has been around for about thirty years.
Character Gender: Female

Original Canon
Canon Point: End of EP3.
Background Link: here and here.

Personality: There are quite a few sides to the witch known as Eva-Beatrice (or Evatrice for short).

Firstly it should be said that since she was first created by Eva as a sort of another 'her' (think of it as being your own imaginary friend, practically) to talk to, she is a lot like Eva. She has the same determination to become the head of her family, perhaps even more than Eva does. Becoming the head is the dream she shares with Eva and she won't stop for anything to get it to come true. When Eva displays the slightest hesitation at whether they'll succeed or not she immediately gets angry at her for betraying her dream and the same thing counts for when Eva shows signs of wanting to exchange her dream of becoming head for the dream of letting her son George become the next head instead. Even though Eva changes her mind, Evatrice won't stray an inch from the goal of becoming head. She's also shown to be pretty smart, even though she looks like a middle schooler. It was only due to her help that Eva was able to solve the epitaph that nobody was able to solve before, not even the people who are shown as generally smart in the family. She's eager to learn things (especially about her witch powers) and seems to want to tackle problems on her own head-on. Somewhere during Episode 3 she tells the old Beatrice, "My motto is to study things myself before asking other people." The only person she relies on is herself.

But just like Eva (and about everyone else in the Ushiromiya family, honestly) she isn't exactly a nice person. She literally won't stop at anything to reach her goals, no matter whose back she has to walk over in the progress. Another quality she got from Eva was Eva's sharp tongue; Evatrice is quickly to criticise things and especially people. She doesn't speak well of people easily but seems to think lowly about nearly everyone instead. At one point she tells Eva that "men are always children", calls the riddle nobody else could solve infantile and is calling people idiots and all sorts of other things left and right. Usually she's thinking lowly of people because she believes they're all just slacking around, since in her eyes nobody is putting as much effort in reaching their goals as she does - hence why she thinks she's superior to those 'idiots'. Her catch phrase already says enough about her, she's constantly saying 'why don't you shut up and die?'. If people don't put in enough effort they might as well shut up and die or cry themselves to sleep and die in her opinion.

She is, however, able to care about people but the only person she ever cared for in canon is Eva, and that was most likely just because they technically were the same person. At first she's not just becoming head for her own sake but mostly for Eva's, and even as they grow apart in age and thoughts she still helps Eva realise her goal using her 'magic'. Even when they are seperated she still offers to let Hideyoshi and George (Eva's family) live while killing everyone else. It isn't until Eva starts protesting against her actions that she decides that they have nothing to do with each other and she kills those two nonetheless. (Although it should be said that even that doesn't go as easily as the other murders - it's clear that Evatrice is downright a little pouty after she kills Hideyoshi, as if part of her fun is ruined. In some strange way she inherited from Eva she does somewhat care about them, more than about most people at least.) But she wasn't super kind in her way of supporting Eva from the very start: she was telling even Eva to shut up and die if she stops trying just like she does with everyone.

But the biggest and most noticable distinction between her and Eva is the fact that she's still a child. Evatrice never quite grew up from being a middle schooler and is still very childish. She throws tantrums that are very reminiscent of little children when she doesn't get what she wants. Most of the time this happens because she's very greedy. When she and Eva discover the gold she isn't planning on letting anyone else get even a slight portion of it, even when Eva herself is willing to share it with the other siblings. When Eva proposes a plan to cheat Krauss out of money by blackmailing him about the embezzlement Evatrice calls it 'boring'. She longs for entertainment and exciting things like most kids.

In fact, her own dream (that isn't Eva's dream anymore since she grew up) has been to become a witch all along. At first she's so surprised and intimidated by her promotion to a witch that she's uncharacteristically humble and quiet when it happens. It's noted that she even has an 'embarassed smile' on her face as other witches and furniture congratulate her with her new status of being a witch. That quickly turns to what Battler in his narration calls 'an innocence which reflected upon her own joy'. She truly is like a little kid that just got her dream granted, she's honestly happy with her new status and magic. The problem here though lies in giving power to young people; they're usually not able to handle it. It doesn't take long for Evatrice to get obsessed by her new powers and she starts abusing them horribly, killing people in the most gruesome ways just for fun. She even remarks when someone calls her out on it that "it's like playtime that never ends!", showing that through all of it she is still like a child. When you break a toy, you might not be able to repair it to its original state, but with the Endless Magic she can break and repair toys over and over again all she wants. The taste of that taboo drives her mad, even to complete temporary bouts of clear insanity. It's mostly a clear example of how power corrupts.

It should be noted that at first Evatrice did have great respect for the previous Beatrice, she even kneels for her the first time they meet. She did look up to the witch since she had heard about her power and cruelty and wanted to become just like her, but the more Beatrice starts complaining about her behaviour the more Evatrice starts to dislike her up to a point where she tries to kill Beatrice. It's reflected in her way of addressing her, at first she still calls Beatrice 'precedessor-sama', but later on it turns into 'granny'. It's partly her childish side throwing another tantrum at stupid older people denying her her fun.

All in all Evatrice reflects all of Eva's bad qualities, complete with the kind of mentality a little kid has that the adult Eva has grown out of a long time ago. The similarities between her and Eva are displayed later on too, in moments past the canon point I'm taking her from - like Eva's bad treatment of Ange in EP4 which Evatrice continues in a later scene, like how overprotective she is of George (which Evatrice brings up to an insane level, telling him to 'get into her womb' and all) in EP6, and finally her desire to keep the cat box locked and protect Ange in EP8. All of these things don't apply quite as much to EP3 Evatrice though, which is a reflection of EP3 Eva.

Abilities: Evatrice is a witch and is therefore able to use a whole slew of magic. It's difficult to explain the very extend of her abilities, since we're not fully shown in canon, but I'll try to list at least most of it. Although in most cases it's just that if she wants to do something, she can practically do it.

Like all witches in her canon she's shown as being capable of teleporting. Other powers which are shown are flying, levitating others, making things appear out of nowhere (giant cakes, seas of jelly), transforming others (turning Rosa into a butterfly) and transforming herself (in one scene she appears as the adult Eva). She inherited the Endless Magic from Beatrice, which allows her to kill and revive people over and over again as she pleases. She is able to summon the Seven Stakes of Purgatory, seven magical girls that can turn into stakes to kill people. Her own preferred servants ('furniture') however are the Siestas, bunny-girls that shoot off an infinitely long golden 'arrow' (string) that can pierce people and kill them. (Obviously she won't be able to summon either of these though during her stay in the game.) Evatrice is also shown as being able to use the red truth, which is practically just red text that is used to state the truth (although worldplay can be used in it) in Umineko's logic battles - although when Evatrice uses it, it can in the end even form an entire web to constrict a person as long as the argument is good enough without obvious loopholes.

Sample Entry: Feel free to peek at any of my old entries on my livejournal account for her from back when I played her in mayfield!